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You Have Fixed Me Nov 05, 2020

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As Remembrance Day approaches, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Éadaoín Lynch to remember fully and truthfully the relationship between the poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon; and the TLS's sports editor David Horspool talks us through a couple of books on professional game playing, including a football memoir of obsession and crucial omissions by Arsène Wenger.

My Life in Red and White by Arsène Wenger

This Sporting Life: Sport and liberty in England, 1760–1960 by Robert Colls

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Terrifyingly True (or Not) Oct 29, 2020

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Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Lucy Scholes to revisit the work of the master of terror Shirley Jackson and review the new film Shirley (“about as far from a traditional biopic as you can get”); and Jane Darcy grapples with the neither quite Romantic nor quite Victorian Thomas De Quincey, whose life-writing paved the way for the autobiografiction to come

Shirley, directed by Josephine Decker (various cinemas / Hulu)

Thomas De Quincey: Selected writings, edited by Robert Morrison

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Classical music conductors: Overpaid, oversexed and over the hill? Oct 27, 2020

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In a special bonus podcast we bring you an episode of Stories of our times that we think you might enjoy.

The Times's chief music critic, Richard Morrison muses over whether a combination of the coronavirus, environmental concerns and the MeToo movement will be the end of the 'maestro' - the classical music conductor - as we know it.

Guest: Richard Morrison, Times chief culture critic and music writer.

Host: David Aaronovitch.

Clips used: Metropolitan Opera, Aurora Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, The Hendon Band YouTube Channel, ABC News, Washington Post, NBC News.

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Out Caravaggio-ing Caravaggio Oct 22, 2020

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The critic and novelist Elizabeth Lowry joins Thea Lenarduzzi and Toby Lichtig to discuss the Italian Baroque master Artemisia Gentileschi, the subject of a major exhibition at the National Gallery in London, a painter whose Life is as dramatic and moving as her art; and Toby reviews new fiction steeped in dread, paranoia and failure, including a short work by Don DeLillo and the debut novel from the Oscar-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman

Artemisia – National Gallery, London, until January 24, 2021

The Silence by Don DeLillo

Antkind by Charlie Kaufman

Reality: And other stories by John Lanchester

Why Visit America by Matthew Baker

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Dancing on Air Oct 15, 2020

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From a ballet stream to Homer's wine-dark sea. Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the historian and critic Judith Flanders to review the return of dance with new offerings from the Akram Khan Company and the Royal Ballet, and the novelist and poet Will Eaves returns to the Odyssey to explore the nature of memory.

Back on Stage – The Royal Ballet, available online until November 8th

The Silent Burn Project – Akram Khan Company

Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer – Barbican, until January 2021, then at the V&A Dundee

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Milk as Metaphor Oct 08, 2020

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From a carvery lunch in Howards End to emotional Eurocrats. Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Norma Clarke to discuss the role in literary creation of food and its increasingly fraught means of production, and Russell Williams reports on the bookshops of Paris during lockdown and reviews the new novel by a totemic figure in French literature, Jean-Philippe Toussaint.

The Literature of Food: An introduction from 1830 to present by Nicola Humble

Farm to Form: Modernist literature and ecologies of food in the British Empire by Jessica Martell

Read My Plate: The literature of food by Deborah R. Geis

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Food, edited by J. Michelle Coghlan

Les Émotions by Jean-Philippe Toussaint

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Seduction and Uprisings Oct 01, 2020

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From Ovid to the "Black Spartacus". Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the TLS's classics editor Mary Beard to pick apart the story of "seduction", ancient and modern, the poet Fiona Benson reads her latest work, and the TLS's history editor David Horspool explores two accounts of America's domestic slave trade and a new biography of Toussaint Louverture.

Strange Antics: A history of seduction by Clement Knox

Williams’ Gang: A notorious slave trader and his cargo of Black convicts by Jeff Forret

Sweet Taste of Liberty: A true story of slavery and restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel

Black Spartacus: The epic life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh

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Murder at the Opera Sep 24, 2020

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From Poirot on the River Nile to Verdi's take on the infamous Scottish play. Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas talk to writer Laura Thompson about the work of Agatha Christie and how she managed to move with the times, and Professor Larry Wolff joins us from Florence to discuss the tentative return of live opera in Italy with Verdi's Macbeth at the Parma Verdi Festival.

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Books! Books! Books! Sep 16, 2020

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Toby Lichtig talks us through this year's Booker shortlisted novels, plus a couple of others, and Lucy Dallas reports on the French scene (where real life and fiction blur...); finally, we explore the situation in Israel and Palestine from three rather different perspectives.

An Army Like No Other: How the Israel Defence Forces made a nation by Haim Bresheeth-Zabner

The Conflict over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine campus debate by Kenneth S. Stern

The new peace? – Israel’s unexpected ray of light by Ari Shavit – www.the-TLS.co.uk

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Sex and the City of Ladies Sep 09, 2020

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In 1405, Christine de Pisan took up the pen in defense of her maligned sex, imagining a 'City of Ladies' in which the most virtuous female leaders of history might be preserved from the distortions of misogyny. Six hundred years later, with Cleopatra, Lucrezia Borgia and Catherine the Great as her guides, the novelist and historian Lisa Hilton revisits the City to shake the foundations of the way we write about power

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